MARKET MANIPULATION

Market Manipulation refers to the deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of a market to create artificial prices for a security, commodity, or currency. Market manipulation may take a variety of forms. US courts take the view that a test of manipulation must largely be a practical one because the methods and techniques of manipulation are limited only by the ingenuity of man.

WEFA, LLC Principals have experience designing peer-reviewed academic research to create “but for” price benchmarks to test for artificiality in market prices in both security and commodity markets.